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Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination

Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination

by Annette Kuhn (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

This volume is a deconstruction of photographs of the author's own childhood. As an eight-year-old, the young Annette assembled her own family album containing portraits of herself and her mother taken by her father, a keen photographer. Combining photographic and pschoanalytic criticism with memory work, Kuhn undertakes a journey into her own childhood which is heartsearchingly honest, painfully so. From the photographs on the page, she spins stories which capture the feelings of bright working-class girl struggling to come to terms with middle-class schooling, a domineering mother and a sick father. Annette Kuhn is the author of Alien Zone and Women's Pictures and editor of The Woman's Companion to International Film .

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 13 Feb 1995
ISBN 10: 0860916294
ISBN 13: 9780860916291

Media Reviews
An absorbing and beautiful book that reshapes the relations between feminism and cultural studies. Kuhn's 'memory work' teaches us new ways of learning to make our own personal and collective histories. --Meaghan Morris An accessible, self-questioning, thoughtful book which takes one on a fascinating, labyrinthine journey from the family photograph album to filmic representations of the past. --Raphael Samuel Kuhn ... is one of those rare academics whose prose is a pleasure to read: clear, evocative and accessible. -- New Statesman Family Secrets is not only a poignant personal memoir, it is also an exemplary act of engaged cultural criticism. An influential reader of visual culture, a prominent feminist critic, an imaginative analyst of autobiographical and photographic texts, Kuhn provides a blueprint for interpreting the complicated stories we live by, stories who tangled roots lie in our childhood. Brilliantly connecting private history and public event, intimate memory and social theory, Annette Kuhn performs a tour de force. --Nancy K. Miller
Author Bio
Annette Kuhn's books include Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema; Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality; The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality ; and Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema. She is lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Glasgow University.